[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH 1/2] packagedata: show error when there are multiple pkgdata directories

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 04 April 2013 17:39:30 Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 12:14:33PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > * when PACKAGE_ARCH is changed e.g. from MACHINE_ARCH to TUNE_PKGARCH
> > 
> >   get_subpkgedata_fn is still reading old MACHINE_ARCH directory instead
> >   of newer with TUNE_PKGARCH
> This is too strict in some cases, e.g.:
> 
> ERROR: More then one pkgdata dir found for pkg 'opkg-collateral'
> (
> '/OE/shr-core/tmp-eglibc/pkgdata/cortexa8-vfp-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/runtime/
> opkg-collateral',
> '/OE/shr-core/tmp-eglibc/pkgdata/armv5te-oe-linux-gnueabi/runtime/opkg-coll
> ateral'), returning first
> 
> Why do we need to look in all pkgdatadirs? Why not just PACKAGE_ARCH?

So this code may well not be doing the right thing, but PACKAGE_ARCH won't 
work either because this is called to get a list of all packages not just one, 
and we therefore have no context to know PACKAGE_ARCH.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre